Legal Opinion
Rufus A. Garrett, Administrator of the Estate of Ronald Keith Garrett v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1981No. 79-1355PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal presents the question of when the statute of limitations under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), begins to run. 1 Senior District Judge Thomas P. Thornton found that appellant failed to file an administrative claim within the statutory period, measured from the date of the death of appellant’s decedent, and dismissed the complaint. We affirm.
Appellant’s decedent died on May 5,1976, while he was an inmate of the Federal Correctional Institution, Leavenworth, Kansas. On February 22, 1978, counsel for appellant filed in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern…
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